Bilardo anticipated in 2000 that Morocco would be the future of football.

Carlos Salvador Bilardo, the world champion coach with Argentina in 1986, announced 22 years ago that the future of football would be in Africa, pointing out in Morocco. In a television interview with journalist Nicolás Repetto, he recounted an experience that marked him at the time: when he went to play a Mohamed Cup in Morocco, where he was surprised by the passion for football that was in that place. I said it in ’75 when we went to play the Mohamed Cup in Morocco and I said: ‘Here is the future of football. It is not in Europe, in South America, it is not in Asia,” said the Doctor, who at the time of launching that statement in the Saturday Bus program was the technical director of Estudiantes de La Plata.  “But by skill or by athletics?” the reporter asked, replying: “No, because people still play. You go around Capital Federal and you don’t play football. You walk inside and yes. You travel through Europe, in Italy: in Rome, Milan, Firenze is not played. You travel through Germany, in Munich or Cologne there is no place. In Africa they play everywhere. They have strong countries like Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia. It’s good because they have technique.” Every round thing makes a ball, every place, smaller as it is, is a football field for us. Passion was always here, Bilardo’s word makes us reflect that if we work seriously, it will be the present and not the future of football. It means a lot to reach the semi-final to open doors to the world,” said Amine El Amri, a Moroccan journalist, in dialogue with Filo.News since Qatar.La Mohammed V Cup was an international football tournament organized in Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakech (Morocco), created by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) and supported by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This tournament brought together some of the best football clubs of the moment and the champion of Morocco. 

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